Piecewise linear test functions for stability and instability of queueing networks

Queueing Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 205-226

  Down, D ^a,b   Meyn, S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Ergodicity; Multiclass queueing networks; Performance analysis; Stability

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; LYAPUNOV FUNCTIONS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; QUEUEING THEORY; RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS;

ANALYSIS OF STABILITY; ERGODICITY; MULTI-CLASS QUEUEING NETWORKS; NETWORK MODELING; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; POLYNOMIAL MOMENTS; POSITIVE SOLUTION; STABILITY AND INSTABILITY;

QUEUEING NETWORKS;

EID: 0032391163     PISSN: 02570130     EISSN: 15729443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1019166115653     Document Type: Article

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